24 Questions About Heaven

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24 Questions About Heaven

• What will heaven be like?
• Searchers Class

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• 1 - How do we know anything about Heaven, anyway?
• We have no inside information
• We have not been there and come back to report
• All we know is what has been revealed in
  Scripture
• How do you know? The Bible tells me so.

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• 2 Will we be bored in heaven?
• This question bothers many people
• Some things make life worth living love and
  work
• 6 things that never get boring

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• 3 Will we have memory?
• We will retain our memory, personality, traits
  and recognition
• We will have our full memory

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• 4 How can I be happy if someone I love is not
  present in heaven?
• We discussed this in a previous section
• Jesus loved your family member or friend He
  died for them
• Jesus will be happy
• He can make you happy
• NOTE We will agree with Gods judgment

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• 5 Can suicides be saved?
• Simply stated YES
• Most who commit suicide are not in full control
  of their reasoning ability
• The deeper part of a suicides soul and will may
  believe and hope in the love of God.
• In their confused state they see no other way
  to escape the problem and to be with God

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• 6 What happens in hell?
• Nothing
• 7 What happens in heaven?
• Everything

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• 8 Can those in heaven see us now?
• Is there any reason for them NOT to be aware of
  earth?
• Hebrews 121 cloud of witnesses
• Hebrews 114 Able is dead yet speaks

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• 9 Will we all be equal in heaven?
• We will be as we are now
• Equal in worth
• Equal in being loved by God
• Equal in being saved by the blood of Jesus
• We will not be equal in the sense of being all
  the same
• Paul will still be Paul, Peter will be Peter,
  John will still be John

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• 10 Do differences include sexual differences?
• Yes Men will be men, Women will be women
• Our gender will be in memory, not in the physique
  of our spiritual body
• We will be like the angels Matthew 2230

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• 11 What kind of bodies will we have in heaven?
• We will have a body
• It will differ from our physical body

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• 12 What of injuries and deformities in our
  present bodies?
• All defects will be repaired gone
• Physical, mental, emotional
• Revelation 214 the former things are passed
  away

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• 13 Will there be nature in heaven?
• Descriptions include trees, rivers
• Revelation 211 New heaven (sky) and new earth
  (where we will walk and live)
• 14 Will we eat in heaven?
• Tree producing one fruit each month
• 12 kinds of fruit WHY?
• IMHO We will have to eat. We will be immortal.
  We will eat for pleasure.

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• 15 Will our bodies be clothed?
• Revelation 611 White robes given to everyone
• Revelation 714 Washed their robes white
• 16 Will there be music in heaven?
• Revelation 141-3 Sing a new song
• Revelation 153 Sing song of Moses and the Lamb

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• 17 Will heaven be big?
• Revelation 2116 12,000 furlongs
• Length, width, and height the same
• 8 furlongs 1 mile
• City is 12,000 furlongs 1,500 miles each
  direction
• How much space does a spirit need?
• We think in terms of house, land, space, room,
  openness

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• 18 Will there be time in heaven?
• Revelation 106 shall be time no more
• Song When the Roll is Called up Yonder time
  shall be no more
• No clocks, calendars, schedules, PDA, appointment
  books
• In eternity time is meaningless

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• 19 What age will we be in heaven?
• Some people knew me as young boy and teen in
  Michigan
• Some only knew me in places I have lived
• West TN as college grad newly married
• Akron, OH young adult (27)
• Athens, TN adult with gray hair
• In heaven I will be all of the above
• I am still the same person

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• 19 What age will we be in heaven?
• There are two kinds of time
• Chronological (Greek chronos)
• Chronos What time is it? The time of Bible
  Study is 930.
• Matthew 27 What time the star appeared
• Era, expanded (Greek kairos)
• A time of war. You are here for such a time as
  this.
• Revelation 13 The time is at hand

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• 20 What language will we speak?
• Most think in terms of their mother tongue
• Was there a language before the tower of Babel?
• What language did Adam and Eve speak?
• Is there a heavenly language that all can
  understand?
• Will it be possible to understand everyone in
  heaven?

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• 21 Isnt concern for heaven escapist?
• Yes.
• Is it escapist - - ?
• For an infant to desire life out of the womb
• For a seed to desire to be a flower
• For someone at sea to desire to see land
• For a Christian to desire a better country
• Some of the promises about heaven are about what
  we will be able to escape.

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• 22 How do you get to heaven?
• Revelation 2217 Whosoever will
• John 316 God so loved the world
• John 824 Except you believe
• Hebrews 116 Without faith it is impossible to
  please God
• Luke 133 Except you repent
• Mark 1616 Believe and be baptized
• Revelation 210 Be faithful until death

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• 23 Is Jesus the ONLY way?
• Can good moral people get to heaven even though
  they are pagan, Jewish,Hindu, Muslim, etc.?
• John 146 - Jesus said to him, I am the way, the
  truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
  except through Me.
• John 101 - Most assuredly, I say to you, he who
  does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but
  climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and
  a robber.

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• 24 How will all of these questions look when we
  get to heaven?
• Pretty silly simple materialistic
• Like a lump of clay compared to a statue by
  Michelangelo
• Now we see dimly then face to face1
  Corinthians 1312

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Born Twice Die Once
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